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Popular and Classical Music Compared
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on January 24, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
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acoustic, Bach, 19th, people, complicated, electric, artifact, beat, repetitious, instrumental, 30, Germany, document, unfold, three, old, lyrics, notation, cover
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most of the world generally listens to what is called "popular music"
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it is the "music of the             "
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music that most everybody likes
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downloads of popular music outnumber download of classical music about      to 1
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classical music
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the adjective "classical" generally applies to an                  that has been around for centuries, passed down from generation to generation
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in Western society, the term "classical music" was first used rather late in the          century
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in                where concert pianists were told to go back and play older music
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the music of the late 18th century
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Mozart
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Haydn
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the difference between popular music and classical music
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1. popular music often uses                  instruments
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classical music uses                  instruments
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instruments generating sounds from natural materials
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2. popular music has              which tell you what the music is about
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classical music is usually purely                         
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the music itself has to tell you what it's about, has to sound out it's meaning
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3. pop music tends to have a strong         
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in classical music, the beat is most often more subdued
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4. pop music tends to be short and                       
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typically about            minutes long
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the melody and the tune get sung again and again
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classical pieces
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almost always longer
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20 or 30 minutes long or even more
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             continually
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5. pop music is usually performed without musical                 
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there is no prescriptive written                  for pop performances
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any particular artist can do a            or remix of a song
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classical music
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is        and must be done more or less the same each time
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classical music performances really don't differ all that much from one performance to the next
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it is                        music and needs to be written out

Ideas and Concepts:

On one of the differences between classical music and pop music, as sung by Billy Joel, via tonight's Classical Music course: "It was a beautiful song, but it ran too long, if you're gonna have a hit, you gotta make it fit, so they cut it down to 3:05."
Popular and Classical Music Compared
Music and Emotions